Senior Linux Engineer

2 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Canonical Full time
Job Description

This is a challenging engineering role at Canonical that involves working on Linux-based software-defined infrastructure and applications. You will be responsible for troubleshooting and driving issues to resolution with workarounds, guidance, and bug fixes to be released upstream and in Ubuntu.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Resolve complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, Kernel, Ceph, OpenStack, or Kubernetes and other open source software
  • Maintain a close working relationship with Canonical's field, support and product engineering teams
  • Participate in upstream communities
  • Develop bug fixes, backport patches, and work with upstream for inclusion
  • Review code produced by other engineers
  • Demonstrate good judgment in technical methods and techniques
  • Prioritize work and manage your time effectively against those priorities
  • Participate in team discussions to improve processes, tools, and documentation
  • Maintain clear, technical and concise communications
  • Work from home and travel internationally up to 10% of work time for team meetings, events and conferences

Requirements:

  • Professional experience as a software engineer
  • Background in Computer Science, STEM or similar
  • Strong experience with Linux, and at least one of the following: Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes or other cloud technologies
  • Strong development-level experience with at least one of Python, Go, C or C++ on Linux
  • Ability to troubleshoot with debugging tools like gdb
  • Familiarity with git source code repositories and branches
  • An exceptional academic track record
  • Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals.

What We Offer:

  • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
  • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
  • Annual compensation review
  • Recognition rewards
  • Annual holiday leave
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
  • Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

Canonical is a company that values soft skills and is passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.

This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and open source to build a career with Canonical and drive success for our customers, community and the company.

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